snow patrol - You could be happy

Snow Patrol is an Irish rock band that formed in 1994. The intro of this song makes me cry.

Hooverphonic - Tomorrow

Hooverphonic, a Belgian trip hop group that formed in 1995. They are one of the earliest bands that their music style is categorized as Trip Hop, therefore it makes them become the one of the icons of trip hop music just like the other band Massive Attack. The song that I am introducing today, Tomorrow, is a song from their double-disks album (No)More Sweet Music in 2005. The interesting thing about this double-disks album is each disk contains a different version of a same list of songs, the first disk is grander, which uses more classical instruments, whereas the second one is darker and uses more computer generated sounds for the songs. The video that shown below is a live version of the grander version, enjoy~

PS, the vocalist in this video had left the band since 2008

Still Sia, Sia - Lentil

This album of her is just amazing, let me show you an other song in the album.

Sia - Academia

Sia Furler, aka Sia, is an Australian Singer-Songwriter. She has her own solo career but she is also a consist vocal provider for the famous UK downtempo music group Zero 7 . Its very hard to characterize Sia's music genre since it has a bit of everything (isn't it what the trend in music industry is right now) like jazz, trip hop, soul, rock...etc. The song I am introducing today, Academia, is from her forth solo album Some People Have real Problems, enjoy~

Raised by Swans - Violet Light

Just watched Chloe today, so I have to talk about this band, Raised by Swan. To be very honest, Although I've lived in Canada for years, I really don't know much about Canadian bands and musicians, I know thats a shame, but I guess most of the Canadian musics are just not my cup of tea.

The movie is just okay, not like amazing, Amanda Seyfried is stunning tho. One interesting thing about this film is the film is actually like a promotional film for the city of Toronto. The film was shot in downtown toronto and it shows tons of landmarks of Toronto and I have to say Toronto has never been this pretty before in the history of movie. The film even shows the real names of the restaurants that the characters go, which is rather strange for a movie to do. Therefore, it makes so much sense that the movie chose a Canadian band for the theme song. The one they chose was Violet Light by Raised by Swan and I absolutely love it. Check out their other songs too, they are amazing.

Raised by Swans on myspace

Sohodolls - Bang Bang Bang Bang

Sohodolls is a UK electro group from London. Their hits includes Stripper and I'm not cool. The latter is popular due to its used in the popular us TV series gossip girl. The song I am sharing with you guys is called Bang Bang Bang Bang

Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

Tom's Diner probably is one of the most important and successful song in Suzanne Vega's music career. The version that we usually hear is probably the one that features the English dance pop group DNA, however, her song was originally recorded in a cappella style in 1981 (because she didn't know how to play piano at the time). The song in the following video is a version that edited by a youtuber who merge the Vage's a cappella style of the song with his own piano. Pretty interesting.

Roar!!!! Patrick Wolf!!!

I don't usually buy the actual album anymore since itunes is just so continence. However, this album, after I've listen to the song hard time, I decided this is a collectible item. Unfortunately, instead of 20usd, which I consider rather expensive for an album already, I actually spent $40 on it, because I left my first copy on the bus after I purchased it. I hope that if anyone who picked it on the bus seat he/she would really listen to it and fall in love with this music. I went to buy the same album again the next day. After listen the whole album I think its all worth it.

Patrick Wolf is a English 26 years old singer-song writer. His music is one of those hard-to-categorize music that inspired by a very broad variety of music genre, so I am not trying to categorize him here. But what I can tell you is most of his music are very sorrow and emontional yet very powerful (you really can tell he is the emotional kind from his hair style~LOL), especially in his vocal. The lyrics in his songs are usually very edgy but not pretentious. The song I am introducing today is the song that made me to buy the hard copy of this album, its called "Hard Times"